Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford who researches race and inequality.

There are many species of great ideas. The objectively perfect great idea, though, is one that (1) seems simultaneously novel and brilliant when first considered, and then (2) seems so obvious in retrospect you wonder why we didn’t know it all along. It will come as no surprise that the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival was full of such ideas. Explore ideas on eliminating prejudice, cultivating joy and why today’s secular religion may be a Crossfit class.

How Will the Mueller Testimony Play Out?

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify in front of Congress tomorrow about his investigation on Russian election interference and whether President Trump obstructed justice. The investigation has left many open questions, but some say the President has been cleared and it’s time to move on. Will Mueller’s testimony change the public’s perspective? Attorneys Neal Katyal and Ted Olson sit down with the Institute’s Garrett Graff and Mary Louise Kelly of NPR in our latest Aspen Ideas to Go podcast episode.

"Truth is central. Racist ideas have long been built on lies. Racist ideas need believers, not thinkers." — Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist

"We have dehumanized health care, we have gutted the care of health care — this is our only shot to get it back." — Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Health Care Human Again